The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-11-16

chief Of the Bureau Of Statistics, Treasury
Department, to meet its members and
friends at the one hundred and nineteenth
annual banquet of the chamber at Dell
monico's, New York City, on the evenin &
of the 18th. Ii not prevented by official
business he will attend.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JNo BUYaER, prominent farmer, who
was n witness against the Rainbarger
brothers, gang of horse-thieves living
near Steamboat Rock, Hardin County, Ia,
who were convicted of numbering their
father for his life insurance, was waylaid
near his home on the night of the 7th and
seriously and probably fatally wounded.
CASHIER CREcELIus of the Fifth Ma
tional Bank Of St Louis was arrested on
the 9th on charge of making false en-
tries, reports and statements concerning
the banks condition. He was held in
$25, 900 bonds by the United State Com
missioner.
THE sheriff of Taylor County, Ia, has
arrested man named M. b. Foster for
the murder of Emmett Reed. The two
men had been working on railroad near
Bedford, Ia, and were on their way West.
NINE of the bandits captured by the mil
itary near Matamoras, Mexico, have been
executed. Among the captured bandits
not yet executed are Epeminio Posules,
the noted brigand, who led the attack on
the Alcisesa ranch.
THE main building of the Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Davenport, Ia, was
burned at half-past four o'clock on the
morning of the 9th. The building was
completely gutted. Insured for $22, 900;
loss, $780, COO The cause of the fire was a
stroke of lightning. The fifty occupants
of the building got Off unharmed.
A JAIL delivery occurred at Talequah,
I. T., on the 10th, and fifteen prisoners
escaped
JAMES p. McCABE. who murdered
Michael Riley on December 30, 1885, in
Wayne County. Pa, was hanged at Homes
dale on the 10th. There was no excite
ment.
JAMES GALvIr, aged forty years, coal
miner, was instantly killed In Beard &
Suilivan's mines as Danville, Ind, on the
10th, by a premature discharge OF pow
der while blasting coal Lincoln Howell
was fatally injured in the same acci-
dent.
On warrant issued by Justice Patter-
son in New York, on the 10th, Detective
Sergeants Tissuro and Bruner arrested
Andrew Massante, a grocer of No. 81
Watt street, who had threatened to kill
on sight Mrs. Mary Rocca, a country
woman of his.
o. H. ANDERSON, a lunatic, was being
conveyed to the Insane Hospital at Chi
cago in an ambulance on the morning of
the 10th. On the way he heard of Lingg's
suicide at the jail, and concluded 1t would
be good idea for him to do likewise.
Accordingly he took razor from his
pocket and cut his throat He will proba
bly, die.
THE Giant Powder Mills of Rummell &
Co., seven miles west of Toledo, o., were
the scene of terrible explosion on the
10th, by which loss of 5000 was sus-
tanned. Four men were at work at the
time, but all miraculously escaped injury.
MEMPHIS had a cotton fire on the 11th,
which destroyed S250,00o worth of the
staple.
CHARLES BozzELL has been indicted at
Gainesville, Tex, for the murder of Bony
Tucker.
THE schooner Mystic went ashore at
Portsmouth, N. H., on the night of the
10th. The crew were in the rigging all
night. One man died of exhaustion and
one was drowned. The captain is in
critical condition.
THE four uncommuted Anarchists, Au
gust Spies, Albert r. Parsons, Adolph
Fischer and George Engel, were executed
by hanging at Chicago on tho 11th. Their
bodies were given into the custody of
their relatives and friends.
THE grand-jury of the criminal court at
Memphis, Tenn, returned twenty-one ad-
ditional indictments on the II tn against
Wharfmaster Pat II. Kallaher. They all
charge him with embezzlement of small
sums.
The Saltwater (Minn.) grand jury have
foun d two indictments against II. g.
Stordock, warden OF the States prison,
one for criminal libel and one for subor-
nation of perjury.
THE bark Union, from Pernambuco,
which arrived at New York on the 11th,
brought six shipwrecked sailors, prob
ably the only survivors OF the bark Au-
gusta, OF Stockholm. which foundered in
terrific hurricane on October 10.
MRS. MCPHERSON, of the Chelsea Hotel,
New York, tainted on the 11th while sit
ting in Macy's. She fell backward to the
floor, and her hat pin was forced int the
base of her skull. An examination showed
that the pin had penetrated her brain, in
fiicting mortal wound. She was, at lat
ests accounts, dying in the New York Hos
pital
MISS MAGGIE LYNN, daughter of Robert
Lynn, secretary of Tarkio (Mo.) college,
was thrown from buggy at Tarkio, on
the 11th, and received what are supposed
to be fatal injuries. She was thrown into
q barbe- wire fence, cutting a frigbtful
cash in her abdomen, crushing three of
the ribs, and besides this her skull was
fractured.